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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you look at the houses that our police officers live in, some of them are forced to share single rooms with their families. You can imagine a police officer who is supposed to protect billions of shillings from being stolen from the Central Bank of Kenya and many other banks living in squalor. Many other police officers live in tents. You can imagine a police officer who is supposed to be armed with an AK 47 living in a tent with his wife. Even with that suffering, they do not have any guarantees about their families. They escort money and protect people’s lives, but when they are killed, their families are not compensated. It was estimated in 2009 that we had about 42,342 police officers. It was reported that they lack about 30,000 housing units. Up to now, I want to tell this House that nothing has been constructed. If you look at how our police officers are transferred from one police station to the other, they actually pray before they move to the next police station. Those who are working at the Central Bank of Kenya earn a little bit more than those who are stationed in various police stations. My Motion is urging the Government to, at least, for once, come up and start an insurance policy which will take care of families of our armed forces; that they will have a medical cover for the rest of their lives. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, secondly, we do not need to give them just food or their retirement benefits, but also guarantee their children and partners a life cover in case of death. The children who are left behind should be educated by the Government up to university level. By so doing, we will be encouraging our police officers, military officers and Administration Police officers to work hard with a guarantee that their lives are secure. If someone is killed in the line of duty, that person should be guaranteed that their children will be educated. If you look at the money that has been alleged to have been squandered in this country, you wonder what kind of policies we are looking for if Kshs400 billion can be lost in one year in our national Budget and yet starting an insurance cover for these officers will probably not cost more than a Kshs120 million. This House should know that today lecturers of our national universities are on strike despite the fact that the courts have issued orders to stop the strike. These lecturers are being forced by circumstances to disobey the court order because it does not change their lives. I beg to move and ask Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale to second the Motion."
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